This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 101: Stella Is Sick that begins with:

Stella is sick, and in that sickbed lies
Sweetness, which breathes and pants as oft as she: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab abab XcX cdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1001101101 1011111111 1111110101 1101011100 1001110111 10110010111 11101000011 1011110101 1111110101 1111111101 1111101110 1001110101 1011110111 0111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, thy are repeated.

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